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Rolling Stone: Jaime Harrison Is Ready to End Lindsey Graham's Career in Congress
Jaime Harrison Is Ready to End Lindsey Graham’s Career in Congress
The rising Democratic star talks to Rolling Stone about campaigning in the time of Covid, helping shape a new era of politics in the South, and why he feels bad for his Trump-loving opponent
By RYAN BORT
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/jaime-harrison-south-carolina-senate-lindsey-graham-interview-1055834/
Ask the 44-year-old Democratic candidate for Senate in South Carolina just about anything and he’s likely to respond by way of a real-world example, either from his own upbringing in rural Orangeburg or from the lives of those he’s encountered throughout his career in politics. Since announcing his long-shot bid to unseat Lindsey Graham, Harrison has been regaling South Carolinians in an effort to convince them it’s time to turn the page on the three-term Senate Judiciary Committee chairman.
His approach to unseating Graham is simple. Show don’t tell.
Harrison believes Graham’s role as Trump’s most shameless sycophant in Congress has alienated the senator from the needs of his constituents, who have long lacked the kind of hands-on attention they deserve from their representatives. Though the pandemic has hampered Harrison’s plans to get into communities and demonstrate what they’re missing — which he planned to do through a tour of all 46 of the state’s counties and a public-service initiative dubbed “Harrison Helps” — his message is still resonating.
In August, Harrison raised a whopping $10 million, much of it from out of state, building on the $14 million he raised in the year’s second quarter, a total that nearly doubled the state’s previous Senate campaign fundraising record: the $7.3 million Harrison raised in the first quarter. “Lindsey Graham is a man who’s been in Washington for 25 years, a man who’s the golf buddy of the president of the United States,” Harrison says of his campaign’s improbable success. “A round-headed boy from Orangeburg, South Carolina, born to a teen mom, is out-raising that guy.”
The rising Democratic star talks to Rolling Stone about campaigning in the time of Covid, helping shape a new era of politics in the South, and why he feels bad for his Trump-loving opponent
By RYAN BORT
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/jaime-harrison-south-carolina-senate-lindsey-graham-interview-1055834/
Ask the 44-year-old Democratic candidate for Senate in South Carolina just about anything and he’s likely to respond by way of a real-world example, either from his own upbringing in rural Orangeburg or from the lives of those he’s encountered throughout his career in politics. Since announcing his long-shot bid to unseat Lindsey Graham, Harrison has been regaling South Carolinians in an effort to convince them it’s time to turn the page on the three-term Senate Judiciary Committee chairman.
His approach to unseating Graham is simple. Show don’t tell.
Harrison believes Graham’s role as Trump’s most shameless sycophant in Congress has alienated the senator from the needs of his constituents, who have long lacked the kind of hands-on attention they deserve from their representatives. Though the pandemic has hampered Harrison’s plans to get into communities and demonstrate what they’re missing — which he planned to do through a tour of all 46 of the state’s counties and a public-service initiative dubbed “Harrison Helps” — his message is still resonating.
In August, Harrison raised a whopping $10 million, much of it from out of state, building on the $14 million he raised in the year’s second quarter, a total that nearly doubled the state’s previous Senate campaign fundraising record: the $7.3 million Harrison raised in the first quarter. “Lindsey Graham is a man who’s been in Washington for 25 years, a man who’s the golf buddy of the president of the United States,” Harrison says of his campaign’s improbable success. “A round-headed boy from Orangeburg, South Carolina, born to a teen mom, is out-raising that guy.”
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Go Jamie!